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![WHAT IS THE TAOIST (OR, DAOIST) BRANCH OF BUDDHISM ALL ABOUT? [6 of 6] In God’s creation, there is no Taoist-type balance between good and evil. First Peter 5:8 says the devil is like a lion that wonders around roaring. And Colossians 2:15 explains that Jesus whooped lion-like Lucifer when Christ died on the cross to glorify God and save all creation. One of my seminary instructors gave a perfect, biblical description of modern-day Satan, since he was wrecked by Jesus: He said, though the devil can still cause serious harm on earth, he is a defanged lion; Christ easily crushed his claim on our world. So, for today’s Christians, Lucifer is like a starving, declawed, toothless lion, dragging around his emaciated little body, trying to frighten people into doing what he says, but only managing to loudly smack his gums.
What reaction would you have if you saw that coming at you? Would you run, or would you tell that rat-headed liar to scram. Non-Christians face the same old lethal devil, but we who have the authority of Christ’s name wield His power over all evil. Bringing that back to the teachings of Taoism, a Christian’s wonderful life and amazing eternal future—spent with the Creator of the universe—is not what Taoists have; instead, their yin-and-yang mentality (“the force” in Star Wars) has them equating evil with God—which is ludicrous. Still, unfortunate people around the world (now including vast numbers of Westerners and even Christians) have accepted the Buddhist, Taoist, Star Wars mindset. Today, all those people are living a life of running scared, even though God has assured us of these facts: "I am God. Beside me, there is no other,” and “Greater is He [the Holy Spirit, or Spirit of Christ] that is in you [Christians]
than he [the evil spirit of the Antichrist] that is in this world.”
Praise God that we Christians never need to run scared! | image tagged in taoism,daoism,buddhism,god,devil,bible | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5ynhrn.jpg)
![WHAT IS THE TAOIST (OR, DAOIST) BRANCH OF BUDDHISM ALL ABOUT? [3 of 6] Followers of Taoism vary in beliefs and practices, but among those are biblically abominable necromancy (contacting the dead) and Roman or Egyptian-type polytheism (worshiping many gods—Scripture also calls them idols). Taoists tend to worship mostly on their calendar’s religious holidays, setting food out as a sacrifice to the gods or the spirits of their departed ancestors. The Bible’s Deuteronomy shows us that God has some harsh condemnation for these Taoist practices: "When you enter the land that the Lord, your God has given you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter into the fire, who practices
divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft or
casts spells, who is a medium or spiritist, or who consults with the
dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord. And because these are detestable practices, the Lord, your God will drive out those nations before you. You, though, must be blameless before the Lord, your God.” Obviously, God detests the practices of those who communicate with dead people. Why is that? Well, once dead, if we were Christians, we instantly go to heaven to be with God. But non-Christians suddenly find themselves in hell. From that point, we remain in either place. Thank God we do not get kicked out of heaven, but hell is also permanent. Either way, we don’t travel back to have a chat with living friends or relatives on earth. There is no second chance and we can’t communicate with the living. That said, I believe people who say some spirit entity showed up and communicated with them, but the Bible is clear about what that is: it is not your loved one, no matter what kind of familiar, luminescent, friendly, or helpful demeanor the deceiving entity portrays.
Scripture warns that those are “familiar” spirits, just the same old demons that
have been duping people for thousands of years. Yet, the religion of Taoism
promotes these extremely dangerous encounters. | image tagged in taoism,daoism,buddhism,god,bible,hindu | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5ynfgv.jpg)
![WHAT IS THE HARE KRISHNA BRANCH OF BUDDHISM ALL ABOUT? [3 of 4] Becoming a member of Buddhism’s Hare Krishna movement involves choosing a guru (teacher) and becoming his disciple. In fact, they believe that is mandatory, because not having a proper Hare Krishna guru supposedly makes it impossible to cultivate “Krishna consciousness.” Contrary to that practice, the Bible does not have us Christians
go through a teacher, pastor, priest, or guru to access God. Those attending Sunrise Bible Church here in Las Vegas do not have to go through to me, the pastor, to get to God. Because of what Jesus did for us, we can approach God directly on His throne, whether we are the greatest of Bible scholars, or even a new Christian who just heard and accepted the gospel. And the doctrine for Krishna followers gets even worse:
Besides believing that adherents must go through a guru to reach their
millions of gods, they also teach that the guru is a god. | image tagged in krishna,buddhism,god,bible,new age,hindu | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5ylh06.jpg)
![WHAT IS THE HARE KRISHNA BRANCH OF BUDDHISM ALL ABOUT? [2 of 4] The Krishna movement began as a reactionary response to dispassionate Buddhist Hinduism. Krishna followers participate in lavish public displays of their adoration and worship for Hindu deities. Similarly, the charismatic influence may have sprung up in the Christian Church because so many services have become somewhat boring and lifeless, often from hiring shepherds who don’t even believe what they're teaching. But our salvation through Christ is the most exciting development that has ever happened to mankind. God forgave all of our sins, so we are no longer headed for hell; instead, we get to spend eternity with God in heaven, ruling and reigning with Jesus, exploring the universe,
and forever learning more and more about the mind of God. I'm all for that! But there is so much deadness in a huge number of Christian Churches today because we’re not spending daily time in the Bible, which is how Christians become passionate for God's truth. This has caused people to get sucked into hyper-charismatic churches, where they are often led to connect with spirits that are not from God. While I agree that many Christian Churches today are fairly lifeless, those are not accurate representations of true biblical Christianity—they’re normally not very biblical. Either way though, two wrongs don't make a right, so jumping into
other harmful, unbiblical practices is not the answer. | image tagged in krishna,buddhism,hindu,god,bible,charismatic | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5ylgqq.jpg)
![WHAT IS THE HARE KRISHNA BRANCH OF BUDDHISM ALL ABOUT? [1 of 4] Hare Krishna is the extreme-charismatic subsect of Hinduism’s Buddhist branch, so it is all about the experience, which often includes physical actions like dancing and chanting. Followers do these things to get themselves into an altered state of consciousness, which helps them (and those of many world faiths) to connect with spirits—the same old lying demons. A similar sort of charismatic element exists within Islam, through the relatively small branch of Sufi Muslims. Sufi’s are also called “whirling dervishes,” because they spin around in skirts that rise up to form a circle around a person who can turn fast enough. That spinning is their form of
charismatic worship that they incorporate into their Islamic beliefs. And it’s all part of the same sorts of practices from Buddhism and Hinduism that are meant to get followers into an altered state of consciousness, an emptying of the mind that more easily allows visions and the ability to connect with what the Bible calls “familiar spirits.” Again, those spirits are deceiving, murderous demons—like their father, the devil. There are only a couple variations from Buddhist Hinduism for those involved with the Hare Krishna religion. Like Hinduism, Hare Krishna obviously allows most any type of worship and deity, because they too have over 330 million gods. However, Hare Krishna’s differ in the practice of their religion, publicly displaying their emotional devotion, while Hindus
are more prone to dispassionate expressions, just solitarily
sitting in some specific position while they meditate to alter
their consciousness and connect with demonic spirits. | image tagged in krishna,buddhism,hindu,god,sufi,charismatic | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5ylgar.jpg)
![WHAT IS THE BUDDHIST RELIGION OF JAINISM? [2 of 2] Jesus talked about the Jewish Pharisees forcing their followers to perform prescribed works as the way to supposedly reach a pleasant afterlife, the same sort of works that today’s Jainism (an offshoot of Buddhism) holds their people to. What did Christ say about people who force followers to perform manmade tasks as the supposed ticket to heaven? He called the Pharisees what they were: fools and hypocrites. Here is Jesus addressing the Pharisees in Matthew 23:15 and 27:"Woe to you, blind guides! You go over
land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one,
you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are…; You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.” The Pharisee’s rules where false teachings, useless burdens put on people. Completely contrary to what the Pharisees prescribed, Jesus had the people follow Him, promising this at the end of Matthew 11: "Come to Me…you will find rest for your souls. My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” But even today, because people refuse to accept Christ’s free gift of salvation, those caught in false religions like Jainism continue to suffer under Pharisee-type rules, not to mention risking an eternity away from God, ending
up in hell, if they don’t accept Jesus before their death. | image tagged in jainism,buddhism,hindu,god,bible,jesus | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5ylfaf.jpg)
![WHAT IS THE BUDDHIST RELIGION OF JAINISM? [1 of 2] “Jain” simply means “conqueror,” and “ism” is a “doctrine, cause, or theory,” so a Jainist is a “conqueror from the bondage of this world.” That foundational belief of Jainism sounds like the Hindu idea that we all must escape the bonds of reincarnation, life’s supposed cycle of continuous birth and death which is caused by our bad karma built up in previous lives. The similar views make sense because Jainism is another spin-off from Buddhism, which came out of Hinduism. The works-based aspect of Jainism—the same, tired, old claim that we all must
work our own way to heaven—is similar to the beliefs and practices
of Jewish leaders during the time Jesus walked the earth. Christ had to deal with the Pharisees and all their onerous, manmade rules and traditions that they relentlessly put on the Jewish people. The Pharisees came up with crazy decrees, like not spitting at the ground on the Sabbath. Why in the world would that matter? Well, having the right trajectory, your spit might hit the dirt with a strong enough force to roll through the dust; thus, you would be plowing a tiny trough—how dare you work on the Sabbath. This is just one of a million examples
where man’s rules have been put on people to religiously control
them with constant threats on their eternal lives. | image tagged in jainism,buddhism,hindu,god,bible,jesus | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5ylev4.jpg)
![HOW IS THE BUDDHIST “BAHA’I FAITH” GREATLY IMPACTING WESTERN CULTURE TODAY? [5 of 5] Baha’i Faith and New Age are working toward a coming together of the world’s faiths; a universal “oneness,” or gathering of all spiritual philosophies under one central leadership, a “tolerant” religion for the whole planet. And this mindset will be an acceptance of everyone’s “individual truths,” which means we must accept—whatever anyone claims—as truth. Of course, that idea disappears in a puff of logic when you or I simply point out that some accept the claim, while others say it’s false. Those opposing views can’t both be true, and according to Baha’i, they must believe our statement about the opposite views existing. You can see how their
contention is impossible, and the Bible warns that a twisted system
like this is being put together by Satan in these last days, a world religion for Lucifer to command through his Antichrist. We obviously don’t want to be part of it! The coming one world religion promises to eradicate poverty and stop extreme wealth from concentrating in few hands. That is the rhetoric being pushed today, all over the world, while financial control is becoming more and more concentrated. The world’s super wealthy have no plans to share their money and power, but for us who are not in their club, we constantly hear their deceiving media advocate a "redistribution of wealth"—but only among the rest of us. They claim this will usher in their utopia for entire planet, but it will only make
slaves and serfs of the vast majority of mankind, while the
elites gain all the wealth and total worldwide control. | image tagged in buddhism,hindu,bahai,bible,satan,religion | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5ykchg.jpg)
